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Are certain individuals more likely to become violent than others? Is this a trait, which begins in childhood?

Violence is behaving in an aggressive or abusive manner towards people or objects. Violence generally occurs as a physical response to the emotion of anger or frustration. Another common reason for violence is to gain something from the violent act. However many violent crimes occur for no gainful reason, these crimes seem to have no purpose other than to act in an aggressive manner. Violent crimes include physical abuse, verbal abuse and the making of violent threats
It appears as some individuals act violently for different reasons and that certain people are more likely to become violent than others, this can be due to several main reasons. One is that people are born with a more violent personality behave in a different manner to other people; the idea behind this is that people are born with the predisposition to act in a violent manner. People have the innate desire to act or behave in a violent manner. Therefore they are satisfying the innate desire that drives or motivate...

Posted by: John Mayes

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